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Vikram Seth CBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
Jun 16, 2024 · Vikram Seth (born June 20, 1952, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India) is an Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993).
A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume. [1] [2] [3] A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India.
Vikram Seth's latest works include Two Lives (2005), a memoir of the marriage of his great uncle and aunt, and Summer Requiem (2015), a book of poems.
As Vikram Seth’s landmark novel, A Suitable Boy, completes 25 years, an exclusive interview with the writer on the book, its much-awaited sequel and his plans for a scheme of books...
A Suitable Boy (1993), an epic of Indian life set in the 1950s, got him the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.
Jul 24, 2020 · Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy, a panorama of post-independence, post-separation India comes to the BBC, in an adaptation scripted by Andrew Davies. Vikram explains the story's origin...
Apr 6, 2023 · In the Indian context, it was unusual because my mother was working. She was a lawyer — and in fact later became a judge and the chief justice of a high court of Himachal Pradesh in Shimla. "My ...
Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952. His mother was a judge and his father an executive in a shoe company. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and Stanford Universities as well as spending some time in China studying Chinese poetry.
Oct 8, 2021 · After the buzz around the BBC’s adaptation of A Suitable Boy, a new collector’s series of Vikram Seth’s poetry puts the spotlight on the author’s poetic accomplishments. Published by Speaking Tiger, the seven volumes showcase the breadth of Seth’s genius and the recurrent patterns in his poems.
